4511.094
Signs required for photo-monitoring devices.

(A)
No local authority shall use
traffic law photo-monitoring devices to detect or
enforce any traffic law violation until after it
has done
both of the following:

(1)
Erected signs on every highway that is not a
freeway that is part of the state highway system and that enters that local
authority informing inbound traffic that the local
authority utilizes traffic law photo-monitoring devices to enforce traffic
laws ;

(2)
Beginning on the effective date of this amendment,
erected signs at each fixed system location informing motorists that a traffic
law photo-monitoring device is present at the location.

The local authority shall erect the signs
within the first three
hundred feet of the boundary of the local authority or within three hundred
feet of the fixed system location, as applicable. If the signs cannot be
located within the first three hundred feet of the boundary of the local
authority or within three hundred feet of the fixed
system location, the local authority shall erect
the signs as close to that distance as possible .
If a particular highway enters and exits the territory of a local
authority multiple times, the local authority shall erect the signs as required
by division (A)(1) of this section at the locations in each
direction of travel where inbound traffic on the highway first enters the
territory of the local authority and is not required to erect additional signs
along such highway each time the highway reenters the territory of the local
authority. The local authority is responsible for all costs associated with the
erection, maintenance, and replacement, if necessary, of the signs.
The local
authority shall ensure that all signs erected under this division
conform in size, color, location,
and content to standards contained in the manual adopted by the department of
transportation pursuant to section
4511.09 of the Revised Code and
shall remain in place for as long as the local authority utilizes traffic law
photo-monitoring devices to enforce any traffic law.

(B)
A ticket issued by or on behalf of the local authority for any
traffic law violation based upon evidence recorded
by a traffic law photo-monitoring device is invalid
under the following circumstances:

(1)
If the ticket was issued after March 12, 2009,
but before the signs required under division (A)(1) of this section
were erected ;

(2)
If the ticket was issued after the effective date of
this amendment but before the signs required under division (A)(2) of this
section were erected.

However, if a local authority is in substantial
compliance with the requirements of division (A)(1) or (2) of this
section, as applicable, a ticket issued by the local authority under sections
4511.096 to 4511.0912 of the Revised Code is valid.

(C)
A local
authority is deemed to be in substantial compliance with the requirement of
division (A)(1) or (2) of this
section, as applicable, to erect the advisory
signs if the authority does both of the following:

(1)
First erects all
signs as required by division (A)(1) or (2) of this section,
as applicable, and subsequently maintains and replaces the signs as
needed so that at all times at least ninety per cent of the required signs are
in place and functional;

(2)
Annually
documents and upon request certifies its compliance with division
(C)(1) of this section.

(D)
A local
authority that uses traffic law photo-monitoring devices to
detect or enforce any traffic law
violation at an intersection where traffic is
controlled by traffic control signals that exhibit different colored lights or
colored lighted arrows shall time the operation of the yellow lights and yellow
arrows of those traffic control signals so that the steady yellow indication
exceeds by one second the minimum duration for yellow indicators at similar
intersections as established by the provisions of the manual adopted by the
department of transportation under section
4511.09 of the Revised
Code.